America which i invented

Kenneth Parcell : So, Mr. Donaghy, what can I do for you? Jack Donaghy : You should get to know Devon; tell him all of your television ideas. You know, he started off as a page, just like you. Kenneth Parcell : Really? So did I! Jack Donaghy : Banks is no slouch: He pioneered the concept of ten-second internet sitcoms. Are you ready to find out who your biological father is? Maury Povich : Tracy Sally Hemings : Maury, he a dog!

He a dog and a liar! Jack : [as Thomas Jefferson] No matter, Maurice. America, which l invented Crowd : Booooooo! Jack : [as Thomas Jefferson] Which I invented, is a great country because we are not burdened by our pasts. And may the Force be with you always. Jack Donaghy : I want you to tell me everything that happened last night.

Kenneth Parcell : The curtains open on a group of chorus line dreamers in s leotards. Jack Donaghy : Stop that. I'm not talking about the show. The only reason I sent you to Banks was to get information. Why were you telling him anything? Kenneth Parcell : I'm sorry, sir.

I had to keep talking just to stop him from putting his fingers in my mouth. The B-2, better known as the stealth bomber, was a massive, deadly aircraft with a radar-dodging design that made it nearly undetectable to even highly advanced anti-aircraft systems. Modern astronomy is epitomized by the Hubble Space Telescope. Named after Edwin Hubble, one of history's most important astronomers, the telescope was launched in The Hubble doesn't have one single inventor, but the collaborative effort has allowed scientists to peer through 6 billion light years of space since it departed Earth.

Adobe Photoshop is such a staple for image-editing that when a picture appears doctored, it is common to say it's been "photoshopped," even if the picture was edited with a different program. The word didn't exist, however, before , when the Knoll brothers, Thomas and John, developed the first version of the software, which was initially purchased by another company before Adobe realized its incredible potential.

In , University of Buffalo professor of pharmaceutical science Jerome Schentag developed and patented the smart pill. A revolutionary medical breakthrough, the smart pill is a medical device that is encapsulated in pill form and controlled by a computer. When patients swallow the pill, they swallow the device. In , Ashok Gadgil invented a lightweight, easy-to-use and economical device that used UV light to purify water.

It could process four gallons per minute at a cost of 5 cents for every thousand gallons. The product, which can deliver clean water to remote, rural areas, has become vital in the wake of hurricanes and other natural disasters, and one of many American inventions that has helped to save lives.

Once a military novelty, drones are now must-have weapons for the world's most formidable fighting forces. It all started with the first, and still best-known: the Predator. Although the world's most feared and most famous unmanned aircraft was developed by Israeli-born Abraham Karem, it was built in — and for — the United States. In , two students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin unveiled a primitive "crawler" that examined all 10 million documents that existed on the World Wide Web at that time.

The crawler would go onto become the name that is still synonymous with online search: Google. Wi-Fi is a critical ingredient for daily life in the digital age. Although the government had been utilizing Wi-Fi before , that was the year it was released to the public, but not before a major naming war and a scramble to build compatible devices by several rival companies. During the last year of the 20th century, Apple began adding Wi-Fi slots to all its laptops. When scientists Francis Collins and Craig Venter began work on mapping the human genome in the early s, the government had already been using a much slower and more expensive method for sequencing the human genome's 3 billion base pairs.

By developing a cheaper, faster method, Collins and Venter finished the project two years early and published their results in , ushering in a new era in the effort to prevent and cure disease. Although several other companies had released their own MP3 players, Apple's introduction of the iPod in revolutionized portable music and set the tone for how people would interact with their devices in the digital age.

It also positioned Apple as the dominant force in tech hardware for the next decade. In , the world was introduced to one of the most easily identifiable transportation devices ever created: the gyroscopic, self-balancing Segway scooter.

The Segway was the brainchild of Dean Kamen, one of the most prolific inventors of the modern age. Kamen has hundreds of patents across many fields. Hailed by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of , the Bio-Artificial Liver brought new hope to patients around the world.

Developed by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura, the Bio-Artificial Liver utilized both the patient's blood and live rabbit cells to mimic the blood-cleansing process of the natural organ.

In , Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook, a social media network he created for his fellow students. He would soon drop "The," branch the network out beyond the walls of Harvard, and make sneakers and hoodies the standard uniform for millennial tech barons.

YouTube is the world's most popular video-sharing site. Developed by PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, the site's user-friendly, shareable format has been a key mover in not just American culture, but world events from the Arab Spring revolts to the rise of Justin Bieber.

On March 21, , computer programmer and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the world's first tweet. Twitter, which was co-founded by fellow programmers Biz Stone and Evan Williams in San Francisco, would go on to revolutionize communication, journalism, entertainment, and politics.

Today, a half billion tweets are sent every single day by million active users. A majority of world leaders have active Twitter accounts. By , the mobile phone was nearly universal. But that year, Apple, under the stewardship of Steve Jobs, revolutionized the budding smartphone industry with a device that crammed the operational capacity of a computer into the body of a phone. The iPhone was born.

The world was introduced to a revolutionary personal fitness tracker called Fitbit in time for Christmas in Invented by James Park and Eric Friedman, the device measures and records vital statistics and activity. Today, Fitbit claims more than 31 million active users and more than one-third of the wearable tech market. Since then, the cost of producing what is being coined "clean meat" — due to its much-lower environmental impact — has lowered while the number of players racing to produce meatballs, steaks, pork, poultry, and seafood, has skyrocketed.

Early in , Bill Gates called lab-grown meats one of the " 10 Breakthrough Technologies " of The British were apparently doing pretty well until something called the Locomotive Act of came along: It required that any motorized vehicle be preceded by a man waving a red flag.

Talk about stifling innovation. Anyway, here's the kicker : "It is generally acknowledged the first automobiles with gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously by several German inventors working independently. So who cares? Well, I'm a little bit irked by Obama's claim for two reasons. First, it's gratuitous, unappealing boosterism. Yes, America is great and its people are highly inventive. God bless America! But it just happens to be true that, in the case of solar technology and the automobile, the Europeans got there first.

Claiming otherwise is both desperate and unnecessary, like copying homework in kindergarten.